On Aug 14, 7:19 am, "Bob Terwilliger" >
wrote:
> Bryan got all defensive:
>
>
>
> >>>> To *my* tastes, homemade ice cream is the best available, followed by
> >>>> Dr. Bob's, then by Ben & Jerry's.
>
> >>> B&J's is drastically inferior. Look at their ingredients. Look at
> >>> their calories from fat.
> >>> Seriously, compare the labels side-by-side and you'll see.
>
> >> Seriously, do some thinking about the concept of "personal taste" and
> >> then shut the **** up.
>
> > Look at the ingredients, dumb****. B&J has reduced their % of
> > butterfat because bozos like you continue to buy it anyway. They do
> > it because butterfat costs more than whatever they thicken cheap ice
> > creams with, mostly carageenan.
>
> > Maybe you should think about the concept of consumers who are too
> > stupid to know the difference.
>
> I suppose your ire is caused by having your stupidity exposed so publicly.
> Go back and think some more about the concept of "personal taste" -- I mean
> really THINK about it -- and then reflect on how stupid it is to claim that
> one ice cream is "better" than another.

Is prime grade beef better than commercial grade?
Is fresh milk better that reconstituted powdered milk?
Are real chocolate chips better than chocolate flavored chips?
How about imitation mozzarella cheese?

Objectively, I guess there's no such thing as "better."

> It's not a question of butterfat,
> it's a question of WHICH TASTES BETTER. I speak from
> the position of someone who has DONE a personal taste-test.

Side by side? Double blind? Gee, I didn't know that I was arguing
with a bona fide ice cream researcher.

> You seem to be speaking as if you think
> you're the taste-arbiter for all of humanity, but I'm guessing you've never
> even TRIED the ice cream you seem so eager to malign.

I've had plenty of B&J's ice cream. I don't think it's bad, and don't
turn it down when offered (except the stuff with the pretzels). I've
bought B&J at more than one B&J ice cream shop this Summer*, but the
truth is that they don't make it the way they used to when they were
becoming famous. They use cheap cream substitutes, just like the
"value priced" pizza lines use imitation cheese.

Haagen-Dasz has made the business decision not to cut their quality to
save a few pennies.

* They have BOGO coupons on grocery receipts.
>
> Bob

--Bryan